Sentence examples for iceboat from inspiring English sources

Downstairs were larger items such as an iceboat and a car.

An iceboat that is sailing downwind can reach no greater a speed than that of the wind itself.

But an iceboat can reach much faster speeds when it sails across the wind rather than being pushed along by it, since the boat creates a wind from the velocity of its own movement that greatly supplements the natural wind.

An iceboat consists first of a single fore-and-aft spar, called the backbone, which may be wide enough to have a cockpit in its hull to carry the crew.

The iceboat can reach at least four times the speed of the wind propelling it, and speeds of over 140 miles per hour (220 km/h) have been recorded.

In 1790 the first iceboat appeared on the Hudson River in New York.

Smaller iceboats dispense with a cockpit in the hull and instead have a shallow, elliptical tray mounted on the backbone and upon which the one- or two-man crew sits.

These large iceboats reached speeds which at that time were the fastest ever attained by any vehicle.

Skeeters were able to rival the larger iceboats in sailing speed, and they have dominated all open competitions over the past decades.

The last time the Navesink froze thick enough for smaller iceboats was in 2007.

After he gave the O.K., word quickly spread from Riverhead to Orient, and the iceboats were uncovered, checked over and loaded onto open pickups or hauled by trailers to the edge of the bay.